What's the difference between malodour and mephitis?

Malodour


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of the total, 88% wished to know whether they had oral malodour or not.
  • (2) All women experienced a subjective disappearance of abnormal vaginal discharge and malodour.
  • (3) These findings indicated that dental health education on oral malodour and mouthwashes would be important in future.
  • (4) In a multi-practice study, 29 general practitioners registered 361 women with increased vaginal discharge, malodour, or pruritus, and 229 women without vaginal complants.
  • (5) By incubating sweat and lipid from subjects with strong foot odour, we succeeded in reproducing the foot malodour.
  • (6) About half (52%) of the students said, they practice the prevention of oral malodour by brushing their teeth, and 50% like to use mouthwashes.
  • (7) Hence, it has been considered that the prevention of oral malodour has an important role in preventive dentistry.
  • (8) VSC are the principal cause of physiological oral malodour.
  • (9) An increase in discharge was reported by 89% of the women, itching by 53%, and malodour by 38%.
  • (10) Although 98% of the respondents felt sick when they became aware of another person's oral malodour, 53% of them told the other person of their discomfort when the person with oral malodour was a parent, brother, sister, or a very close friend.
  • (11) As part of the study on the prevention of oral malodour, people's attitudes and reactions towards oral malodour were investigated in this study.
  • (12) Of the total number of the students questioned, 47% sometimes feel uneasy about their own oral malodour, while 35% have never thought about it.
  • (13) Volatile sulphur compounds (VSC) are the cause of oral malodour.
  • (14) Detailed quantitative aerobic, anaerobic, fungal and mycoplasma flora was obtained for 43 women presenting with complaints of vaginal discharge and malodour.

Mephitis


Definition:

  • (n.) Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.
  • (n.) A genus of mammals, including the skunks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The number and geographic distribution of rabies cases in striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) from Saskatchewan (n = 2,506 cases), Montana (n = 1,142), and Alberta (n = 199) since 1963 were reviewed.
  • (2) A new recombinant rabies vaccine (human adenovirus 5 containing the rabies glycoprotein gene) was given to striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) and red foxes (Vulpes vulpes).
  • (3) Leptospira interrogans serotype pomona was isolated from the kidneys of a normal striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis hudsonicus) collected near Kindersley, Saskatchewan.
  • (4) Pulmonary adiaspiromycosis was diagnosed in seven of 25 striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) in east-central Alberta.
  • (5) The ability of raccoons (Procyon lotor), striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) and opossums (Didelphis virginiana) to serve as reservoirs of Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochetal agent of Lyme disease, was compared with that of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus).
  • (6) Paragonimus kellicotti Ward, 1908 was recovered from 16 of 105 mink (Mustela vison), 14 of 244 striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis), 10 of 446 red foxes (Vulpes vulpes), 1 of 31 coyotes (Canis latrans), 0 of 326 raccoons (Procyon lotor) and 0 of 8 weasels (Mustela spp.)
  • (7) A striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) showing abnormal behavior had histopathologic lesions of toxoplasmosis and canine distemper in addition to intranuclear, eosinophilic inclusions in the reticuloendothelial cells of the spleen, liver and lung.
  • (8) Herpes simplex virus was isolated from the brain of a wild skunk (Mephitis mephitis) which had clinical neurological disease.
  • (9) Twenty nine skunks (Mephitis mephitis) were vaccinated orally with raccoon poxvirus (RCN) recombinants: 10 with a recombinant expressing the rabies virus glycoprotein (RCNRG), 10 with RCNRG mixed with a recombinant expressing the rabies virus nucleoprotein (RCNRN) and nine with RCN alone.
  • (10) Striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) were exposed to challenge virus standard rabies virus by feeding infected mouse brain in suspension or as intact brain free choice, by forced feeding of suspension, and by intranasal, intratracheal and intraintestinal instillation of suspension.
  • (11) Striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) were inoculated into the abductor digiti quinti muscle with street rabies virus isolated from salivary glands of rabid skunks.
  • (12) During a 21-mo-study, seven of 15 skunks (Mephitis mephitis), one of three opossums (Didelphis virginiana), two of two feral domestic cats and a raccoon (Procyon lotor) were found to be infected, while five shrews (Blarina brevicauda) and 18 deer mice (Peromyscus spp.)
  • (13) Live-captured striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) and raccoons (Procyon lotor) were immunized with inactivated rabies vaccine by intramuscular injection and released at the point of capture during a rabies control program in Metropolitan Toronto (Ontario, Canada).
  • (14) To determine raccoon (Procyon lotor) susceptibility and serum neutralizing antibody response to a skunk salivary gland rabies virus, raccoons were inoculated with a rabies virus isolated from a naturally-infected striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis).
  • (15) An epidemic of rabies occurred within a colony of captive skunks (Mephitis mephitis).
  • (16) The pathogenesis of rabies spongiform lesions in striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) and red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) was studied by light and electron microscopy and peroxidase-antiperoxidase immunocytochemistry.
  • (17) Sufficient cross-reactivity was found to exist between anticanine IgG and serum antibody from all carnivores tested, including dogs, cats, foxes (Vulpes vulpes), skunks (Mephitis sp.)
  • (18) In an attempt to identify the definitive host, infected tongues were fed to four coyotes (Canis latrans), eight domestic dogs, four domestic cats, three bears (Ursus americanus), two raccoons (Procyon lotor), two martens (Martes americana), two fishers (Martes pennanti), three skunks (Mephitis mephitis), five mink (Mustela vison), five ferrets (Mustela putorius), one pigtail macaque (Macaca nemestrina), two red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) and one great horned owl (Bubo virginianus).
  • (19) Mature and immature red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) were fed varying numbers of white mice infected with street isolates and a fixed strain of rabies virus.
  • (20) Rodents, domestic cats, opossums (Didelphis virginiana), raccoons (Procyon lotor) and striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) were live-trapped on each farm and similarly tested for antibodies.

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